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MSN Virtual Earth

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:29:00 EST

well i'll be damned... MSN Virtual Earth went live today!

i was just playing around with it and did a few searches around the country... and yes, the first place i looked up was were i lived, which wasn't any worse than looking it up on Google Maps... maybe i'm missing something here, but i remember from the lil demo vid that was posted over at Channel 9 awhile back had some spiffy looking vector 3D modeling overlay thing going on, but i'm not see'n it.... hmmmm.

p.s. Armstrong Bids Farewell to Tour De France — he's the fucking man... effin awesome.

Bona Fista

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:06:00 EST

seems that the new naming of the next version of Windows, Vista, hasn't gone over too well with alot of crowds... at least online... from Neowin, Slashdot, and a hundred blogs or more — seems that most agree that the name stinks. it's been a couple days and i figured i'd give myself some time to get used to it... but it hasnt helped much, and i keep thinking Windows Fista now everytime i see reference to it... here's a quick image i threw together

also thought this acronym for VISTA was pretty funny... *chuckle*

Using a similarly sarcastic tone, blogger Veggiedude sees "VISTA" as an acronym for "the top five Windows problems: viruses, infections, spyware, trojans and adware," he wrote.

UK Body Scanners

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:11:00 EST

U.K. police to test bomb-detecting body scanners

Following the suicide bomb attacks on London this month, the U.K. government and police are planning to evaluate scanning technology that can see through clothes and detect concealed bombs and weapons on people.

The millimeter wave imaging technology was developed by defense research company Qinetiq with the help of government funding and is currently used to detect stowaways hiding in vehicles at channel ports and at an airport in the U.K. The scanner picked up 10,000 illegal immigrants in the back of trucks in its first nine months.

A new, smaller device has been developed by Qinetiq that is designed to inspect individuals or groups of people, with the image showing the surface of the body and objects under clothing.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the government will evaluate the latest system for suitability in the antiterror campaign as soon as it is available in early August.

i remember something similar being in the news over here a year or more ago, and blogging about it... kinda freaky, in that when it scans you, it displays an image of you naked if i remember correctly — not sure that's a job i'd want, man

FF Overflow Sucks

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:16:00 EST

okay, here's some stripped down code just to illustrate the basics of what i'm doing in the *dark* design... i apply the background-image to the body tag (wallpaper or tiled image), and then apply the overflow to the #page div.... if you swap in a wallpaper image locally, you'll see what i mean on how it behaves in Firefox

Dummy Code

<style type="text/css">
body { 
   background: url(bkg-5060-wp1.jpg) no-repeat fixed top left; 
   margin: 0;
   padding: 0;
   width: 100%;
   height: 100%;
   overflow: hidden;
   color: #fff;
}
#page {
   width: 100%;
   height: 100%;
   overflow: auto;
}	
#content {
   height: 1600px;
   padding: 20px;
}
</style>
</head>

<body scroll="no">

<div id="page">
<div id="content">	
   <div style="height:1200px">test.</div>
   fuck yeah.
</div>
</div>

works perfectly in IE6....

Fake Horse Vagina

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:11:00 EST

there's something really disturbing — yet oddly funny — about this, but i just cant seem to put my arm in it.... hmmmmmmmm.

*** Flash FooVid Included Here ***

Muslim Sympathizers

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 07:53:00 EST

One in four Muslims sympathises with motives of terrorists

The group portrait of British Muslims painted by YouGov's survey for The Daily Telegraph is at once reassuring and disturbing, in some ways even alarming.

The vast majority of British Muslims condemn the London bombings but a substantial minority are clearly alienated from modern British society and some are prepared to justify terrorist acts.

The divisions within the Muslim community go deep. Muslims are divided over the morality of the London bombings, over the extent of their loyalty to this country and over how Muslims should respond to recent events.

Most Muslims are evidently moderate and law-abiding but by no means all are.

YouGov sought to gauge the character of the Muslim community's response to the events of July 7. As the figures in the chart show, 88 per cent of British Muslims clearly have no intention of trying to justify the bus and Tube murders.

However, six per cent insist that the bombings were, on the contrary, fully justified.

Six per cent may seem a small proportion but in absolute numbers it amounts to about 100,000 individuals who, if not prepared to carry out terrorist acts, are ready to support those who do.

people have been saying and writing about this for years now, but it's still pretty scary to read it again... esp. from over in the UK, where terrorists seem to be homegrown and british citizens

in other news...

Top 10 Web Fads

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 07:48:00 EST

pretty funny to look over these top 10 web fads, since i remember each one quite well

Internet phenomena. Memes. Grist for the e-mail forwarding mill. Whatever you call them, Web fads are entertaining, unintended consequences of life on the World Wide Web. Once the masses could put anything online easily, they turned up weird fetishes, hilarious parody, jaw-dropping narcissism, and moments of brilliance. And over the past 10 years, some of these ideas broke through to the mainstream. Whether it was dancing hamsters, a kid enjoying his day as a Jedi Knight, or the sudden ability to publish your thoughts online with just a few simple clicks, the following 10 Web fads still make us laugh, make us wonder, or make us feel guilty enough to update our blogs.

Sometimes a fad is so popular it doesn't have to be spelled right. Such is the case with Hampsterdance (sic), created in 1998 by Deidre LaCarte as an homage to her pet hamster, Hampton (and, rumor has it, a traffic-getting contest with a friend). The music? "Whistle Stop" by Roger Miller. The result? A CD-spawning, still-kicking Web fad that transcended geekiness--in fact, many of us at CNET can remember receiving "Have you seen this!!!???" e-mail from, like, our parents. Wow, dude.

funny, but i'm not sure i remember the Hamsterdance... do you?

Potter Crash

Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:45:00 EST

if you havent already picked up your copy of the lastest Harry Potter book and read it in 3 hours flat, then you might not wanna watch this vid of some guys drive'n by a bookstore and shout'n out the spoiler

*** Flash FooVid Included Here ***

(hat tip: bigA)

p.s. shit, just realized i need to update the background graphic on the vid player for the "dark" design.

p.p.s. think i should roll the "dark" design, even if only the blog is being pulled on the page? *curious*

Babe vs. Babe

Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:44:00 EST

this round should probably be called Ass vs. Ass, since that's where my eyeballs are at on these two hotties, that's for damn sure — you know the rules

p.s. here's a cute latina with some camel toe action going on... *g*

Dark FooDesign, Part 4

Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:35:00 EST

i've got the main portion of my FooBlog code working under this design, and have added a Search feature to the top of the sidebar... went back to using the LiveSearch code, and was surprised to remember how neat it was... seems to work really well here, and it's kewl to pull it up and search for things... must've searched on a dozen things, just to see it. *chuckles*

this design seems to work best under IE, that's for sure... the background-image seems to flicker and re-render itself when scrolling down the page under Firefox when i have a wallpaper image applied with background-attachment: fixed in my stylesheets — something i find as kinda odd, and not sure what to do about that... the scrollbar on the right also seems to disappear in FF

i've spent hours on this f0cker, and it seems more like a damn "application" of a sort than anything else, at least in my humble opinion... that's kewl, but damned if there's not alot of things going on to get it all jive'n together... all the pieces of the puzzle, etc.

got the "ajax" comment posting componet working (finally), but having some issues with selecting the "view comments" link after the posting action... kinda scratching my head on that one at the moment... *ugh*